Thursday, September 16, 2010

We recently had the pleasure of designing a custom wedding invitation for Leslie & Darrel, who are getting married on Halloween. We fused historic Calavera illustrations with southwestern imagery to create something completely original for them. Once the designs were finalized we used a combination of letterpress and flat printing( the full color items) to produce the pieces.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

We are so excited for the upcoming weekend of July 4th. With it being Lindsey's favorite holiday the excitement surrounds the shop. We put some great invites, paper goods and craft ideas that just inspire us. Hope everyone has an amazing holiday filled with friends, family and fireworks!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

We were super excited when our very talented in house designer, Emma, had her wedding invitations featured on one of our favorite blogs Oh So Beautiful Paper!

Emma + Chris's southwestern cactus-inspired wedding invitations are a true representation of their upcoming Texas wedding. Emma is employed as a designer and salesperson at Inviting Affairs. We are so excited for her upcoming wedding.

Emma drew her inspiration from nature, art, and all things vintage.

Emma's wedding will be out doors in the hill country of Austin and she wanted an invitation that reflected the southwest without being overtly western. I had the invitations letterpress printed at our awesome vendor Stationery Works using a warm grey ink.

Keeping all the letterpress printed pieces one color helped keep the overall cost down and Emma was able to add in pops of color with the bright yellow envelope liner and a reproduction vintage postcard (which she printed herself). All the pieces were then tied together in little bundles with yellow bakers twine from Whisker Graphics.

The outer envelopes brought it all together with calligraphy and vintage cactus postage that Emma found on Ebay.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

We absolutely love the new Save the Date Album from our friends at Happy Envelope!

They are fun, creative, quirky, and perfect for the Austin couple. Above are a few of our favorites but there are many more in the book. Reasonably priced starting at $205 for 100, they are a great option if you are looking for a photo Save the Date!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

We know....affordable letterpress? It does actually exist! We have two lines in the store that have very reasonable prices, great quality, and fun designs. Spark design suites start at $850*. They have really fun, original designs and even make their own pocket folds. Designer's Fine Press starts at $709*. Their quality is great and can turn an order around in less than 2 weeks! Our custom letterpress is printed with Designer's Fine and we have been consistently pleased with their product.

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